Aspen Data Source Architecture 17.0

Aspen Data Source Architecture by AspenTech is a unified data integration and governance layer for industrial and process enterprises. It connects operational and business systems—such as plant historians, SCADA/DCS, PLCs, MES/ERP, IoT devices, and cloud data platforms—and standardizes them into governed, contextualized data ready for analytics, visualization, and AI. The architecture supports both streaming and batch workloads, offers out-of-the-box connectors and open APIs (for example, OPC UA, MQTT, REST, JDBC/ODBC), and preserves asset context, tags, and events. Built for edge-to-cloud deployment, it provides high availability, buffering, and secure data transfer, along with role-based access control, encryption, auditing, and lineage to meet enterprise security and compliance requirements. By delivering reliable, scalable, and interoperable data, it accelerates initiatives such as predictive maintenance, production optimization, and digital twins across the enterprise.

Key capabilities:

• Unified connectivity across industrial and business systems
• Contextual modeling of assets, tags, and events
• Real-time and historical data processing at scale
• Data governance with cataloging, lineage, quality rules, and access control
• Hybrid deployment across edge, on-premises, and cloud environments
• Open integration with modern data stacks, analytics tools, and AspenTech applications

Aspen Data Source Architecture is developed by AspenTech. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 12.7, 14.0, 15.0, 16.0 and 17.0.